When does the actual thing start?
When does the actual thing start?
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The tournament starts on June 9th. Our first match (against Paraguay) is on June 10th.
"The most important and recognize player in the history of the country."
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I were as great as Paulo Wanchope.
So there's a good chance he'll just miss the first couple games, Shrek will be back. If he isn't I'll bomb his house. He should be back for approx' June 12 if the six weeks <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> is true.
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Why is it the current trend to insult Chelsea at every given oppurtunity. They did not buy the Premiership, they won by beating the rest of the teams in the division. Just because somebody other than Man Utd or Arsenal has won it doesn't mean the world as we know it is ending.
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Considering Manchester United pulled back such a big lead down to what it is now, and have made enough points to win any of the last three seasons, I think that once they get past their injury horror and midfielder crisis during the offseason that they'll be back up there with Chelsea, easily. Liverpool and Arsenal I'm not so sure with, but if Liverpool can get a couple of extra top-level players and if they keep scoring goals like they have been recently, they'll be right up there as well.
Chelsea may not have lost at home for two seasons, but they certainly are capable of losing.
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What are the teams that beat Chelsea this season? One was Boro, I know that.
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Manchester United and Fulham managed it.
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In addition to their Premiership losses, they were also defeated by Charlton in the League Cup, Liverpool in the FA Cup, Real Betis and Barcelona in the Champions League. Real Betis are currently 13th in the Spanish league, to put that into perspective. I trust you are all very much aware of how good the other three are.He and Owen are too similar to play together, in my opnion.Originally Posted by Cz
The thing about Rooney is that he will be lacking in fitness, even if he does return from injury.
Subsitute maybes?
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He's a good Plan B, yeah. Maybe for the knockout stages. I'd like to think we can at least qualify from our group without Rooney. We managed it in the last World Cup, after all.
Maybe we could play Lampard up front with Owen. To me, he's always seemed like more of a striker than a midfielder anyway, as he never really gets involved in midfield battles, and always seems to pop up in the right place at the right time to score a deflection.
Sven is hardly likely to try something like that, though. He doesn't exactly have a history of taking gambles with his team selection. There are plenty of systems that could work better than our current one if hewere willing to give variation a chance, but he's always stuck doggedly to the same formation and team selection (just think how long it took him to drop Emile Heskey). His solution will be to stick Peter Crouch up front and hope that something bounces off his head at just the right angle to propel it into Owen's path.
"The most important and recognize player in the history of the country."
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I were as great as Paulo Wanchope.
I remember an episode of 2DTV where Rooney went to anger management classes and failed miserably. "Wayne smash, Wayne Bash!" There was alot more hillarious crap on Beckham though.
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So your evidence that Wayne Rooney is an out-of-control thug is based on an episode of a satirical cartoon? Alrighty then.
Not out of control. Just an average chav like attitude you see on the street. He's improved but it's not all gone, look at the tackles.
Did I say my evidence was based on that?
Did I say out-of-control thug?
I believe not.
I'm glad he didn't spoil the england theme with a crappy little rap/crap.
I've seen him play plenty of times, he's been booked and yellow carded a canny lot of times. A few of them being this season. Most of the time he deliberatly got himself sent off, strange big eared fellow he is. Maybe his pain from his foot may give him some hell with boredem. What?
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Rooney's tackles are fine. He's more likely to jump to try to avoid injuring someone than most footballers I've seen play around the world. But there is no footballer in the world that doesn't make a dangerous tackle once in a while. To say that Rooney is chav-like because of this is to say that every single footballer in the world is chav-like.
Which is entirely possible.
And everyone gets carded. And if you think that Rooney of all people would deliberately get himself sent off, you're a real bad judge of character. Rooney plays the full 90 minutes at every opportunity and he has stated time and time again that the more games he plays, the better. There's a reason you don't see him rested very often, if at all, regardless of how many games are being played in any one week.
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